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Complete guess but I wonder if the vehicles associated with Task Force Vulcan have been fitted with DFES radios. Could be a combination of convenience (talking to incident controllers at a fireground) as well as safety (if they're on the fireground at an active fire, it'd be good for them to be usin...

And well fed, gotta remember that! Anyone who's likely to be going out there this afternoon and tonight, my suggestion is - take your own food and water. The area this fire covers means some people could be quite some distance away from the control point and the food. As well as the snack boxes in y...

Bullsbrook fire is off again after the wind change :( Houses in Asher Road, Della North Road, Gallagher Road, Old West Road, Pine Road, Bingham Road, Kirby Road, Gaston Road, Morley Road, West Road, Strachan Road, Seismic Road, Wandoo Road south of Mallee Road, Mallee Road and Higgins Road are all e...

It's 'only' 6600 hectares or 16000 acres apparently

Looks like I'm out on (hopefully) mop up duty from 1600-2400.

This firemap was posted as part of the alert last night on the DFES page.

This was the shape of the fire area at 7:00pm yesterday:
http://i.imgur.com/U6cgxyb.jpg

I haven't been listening to the Bullsbrook / Pinjar incident. Anyone remember what Comms Plan or Incident Repeater channel they are using? It was MCE2 originally at the start of the fire but then I suspect it grew beyond that so they were possibly using MCE3 as well or some hybrid mishmash of the t...

meg wrote:

Zebedee wrote:Don't know but I'd just like to say - holy smokeballs batman, that was a big fire!

Yep, it looks absolutely huge :-/ Hope you're getting a rest now Zebedee!

I wish ... you know that situation where you're so tired, you're not even tired any more?

Don't know but I'd just like to say - holy smokeballs batman, that was a big fire! Although having a water point with a pump that can deliver 1,000 litres a minute means going for water doesn't take you from the fireground for quite as long. On the flipside it means you don't get much of a rest eith...

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First Foundation course of the year is the 14/15 Feb with the assessments on the 21st.

Swan ICV and Jandakot's 12.2 have also been sent to the Bindoon incident. I believe that over 100 firefighters are up there, but none from Swan or Bullsbrook other than the ICV. EDIT: South Coogee's 2.4 has been tasked to the Bindoon fire. That'll be a nice scenic 130+ km drive for them! EDIT 2: And...

Looks like the Canning Mills incident might be a false alarm with smoke drift from the Araluen fire. Area has been checked and no fire found.

First alarm scrub fire on The Crescent in Maddington. Maddington FRS attending.

Scrub fire (unknown classification yet) Canning Road cross of Canning Mills Road in Canning Mills.

meg wrote:

Zebedee wrote:Tomorrow (Tuesday 30th December) is about to be declared by DFES as a Total Fire Ban.

I'm quite surprised to see they haven't done that for Monday (tomorrow/today)!

Ditto. Today and tomorrow are looking particularly interesting.

Yet another fire down Rockingham / Kwinana way. This time near the intersection of Rockingham Road and Thomas Road...

Third alarm bushfire near Coolbinia Primary School. Bradford Street cross of Glick Street.